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<p><img class="story_image" src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/080713-PHJB-600.jpg" /></p> <i>That's It!</i> (Sony Legacy) is a hell of a fun album: the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the treasure of New Orleans music, wailing with cylinders wide open.
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Purists might protest. All the songs on this record are new (a first for the PHJB), and the solos tend more toward R&B riffs than trad-jazz polyphony. In short, the vibe seems to pulse more from the rowdy late-night clubs up on Frenchman Street than the band's usual stately sanctuary in the heart of the French Quarter.
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Not that there's anything wrong with that, and there's very little wrong with <i>That's It!</i> The octet
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/ithats-iti]
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Purists might protest. All the songs on this record are new (a first for the PHJB), and the solos tend more toward R&B riffs than trad-jazz polyphony. In short, the vibe seems to pulse more from the rowdy late-night clubs up on Frenchman Street than the band's usual stately sanctuary in the heart of the French Quarter.
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Not that there's anything wrong with that, and there's very little wrong with <i>That's It!</i> The octet
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/ithats-iti]